Tic Tac Toe Challenge #107

 Hi Friends! Time for another fun board over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge:

This week I played along with the first row down: Butterfly, Square, and Friend.

I kept it clean and simple to focus on the beautiful butterfly.  I masked off a square and used Distress Oxide inks to blend the background.  I also used a stitched rectangle die to add some interest around the square.  The butterfly was die cut from white cardstock and vellum, adding pearls to the body.  

Here are the products I used:

Stampin' Up Basic White cardstock and SU Vellum

SU Brilliant Wings Dies

SU A Touch of Ink (sentiment)

Taylored Expressions Stitched Rectangles

SU Pearl Basic Jewels

Distress Oxides: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Cracked Pistachio, & Broken China

Thanks for stopping by!  We hope you'll pick a row and play along this week!

Hugs,

Annie

The Paper Players #503: Joanne's Color Challenge

 Hi Friends!  Today I'm playing along over at The Paper Players where Joanne is hosting a Color Challenge:

Joanne always picks colors that I would never think of putting together but they always work! I was up for the challenge this time:

I used Stampin' Up Melon Mambo and Night of Navy (looks black in photo 😕), Catherine Pooler's Tiara and Gina K's Ocean Mist inks to match up the colors the best I could.  Using those inks, I created a background piece with Concord & 9th's Scatter Dots Turnabout stamp.  On my Melon Mambo card base, I embossed big dots from a We R Memory Keepers 3D embossing folder.  I die cut the polka dot panel and popped it up with fun foam.  The butterfly is 3 layers, 2 of which are vellum pieces.  I added some Wink of Stella to the scrolled body (Catherine Pooler).  Finally, I finished the card off with a piece of Washi tape and the Happy Mail Day sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.  Whew!  Color challenges usually stress me out and it takes multiple tries until I'm happy but this time it came together the first go round!

Thanks for stopping by ~ hope you're having a great week.

Hugs,

Annie

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #067

Hi Friends!  A card today to play along over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge. It was a great board with fun choices.  So many fun choices I spent way too much time trying to decide what to do!

 
I finally decided to go with the third row down:  Rainbow, Heart, and Stripes.

I began by swiping rainbow-colored ink stripes using my little Memento ink pads. They were a little dry but I liked the distressed result.  I stamped the heart filled with butterflies from Unity ('Trust It Will Be Okay') in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and then heat embossed in with clear EP.  I die cut the panel with Honey Bee's Deckled Rectangles and layered onto a black notecard base.  The sentiment from Simon Says Stamp was popped up and a few clear enamel drops were added. 

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you had a great weekend.

Hugs,

Annie 

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #066

Hi Friends!  I'm happy to be back again as a guest designer over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge and so excited about this week's board...check it out!

I decided to go with the middle row across:  Nature (butterfly), Circle, and Twine.

Starting with a Neenah Solar White card base, I stamped some watercolor stripes using MFT's Jumbo Abstract Art stamps and Catherine Pooler inks.  I added some black dashed lines with a stamp from Concord & 9th's Brushed Stripe background stamp.  The Brilliant Butterfly and sentiment from MFT was stamped and die cut with PTI's Deckled Circle die.  The black twine was added to the back of the deckled circle and popped up over a regular circle die cut (Hero Arts).  A little bit of black bling finished off the card.  

Thanks for stopping by...I hope you'll play along with us this week!

Hugs,

Annie